Chapter 999: Divine Tree

Ding~

System Notification: The player's base has an Elven Divine Tree growing, granting Elven Breath Blessing.

Buff:

Friendly targets within Yanhuang Town.

Health recovery speed increased by 500%.

Movement speed increased by 10%.

When health is first depleted, automatically restore 50% health, cooldown 24 hours.

Su Sheng stared dumbfounded…

The scholar knew that when he planted this tree, as it grew, there would be some unexpected benefits.

However, the tree's growth speed is truly worrying, and later it unexpectedly attracted a great deity like YiSiLanDiEr.

It also seems to have the effect of attracting wandering elves to attach, similar to Dalian… Although she appears and disappears all the time, just like YiSiLanDiEr, she has already settled in Yanhuang Town.

I didn't expect this to bring an unexpected joy.

Health recovery speed directly increased fivefold, but this effect isn't very noticeable.

However, when defending the city, as long as one isn't repeatedly attacked, basic recovery can happen without healing.

As for the 10% movement speed increase, it's just the icing on the cake.

The core is… when health is first depleted, it will restore 50% health.

Almost all friendly units fighting inside Yanhuang Town have gained an extra Survival Skill.

Su Sheng only felt a surge of excitement rush to his head; happiness came just like that, so sudden.

When Su Sheng came to his senses, the Primordial Tree before him had stopped growing. No… it can no longer be called a Primordial Tree.

Su Sheng checked the attributes of the tree before him…

Elven Divine Tree (Three-Colored)

Description: A special tree possessing natural divine power.

Su Sheng exclaimed, this tree has actually reached the three-colored stage.

"Indeed, I've nurtured it for so long; given the resources invested, it should have reached this stage by now, but it's been stuck."

YiSiLanDiEr seemed to be muttering to herself.

"The problem is indeed in the soil; unfortunately, this fertile soil is still a bit lacking."

YiSiLanDiEr shook her head slightly, then gave a self‑deprecating laugh, thinking she might be getting greedy.

Being able to obtain a bit of fertile soil is already not bad.

In the past, that fertile soil existed only in a ring beneath the Life Divine Tree of the Elven Forest.

Now the Elven Kingdom has fallen, and the Life Divine Tree has withered.

The entire Elven Forest has long been the Demon Race's stronghold, it seems. The fertile soil once beneath the Life Divine Tree has also long been contaminated by demonic energy.

Besides their own strength, what makes living beings most wary of the Demon Race is demonic energy.

They corrupt everything; that is the nature of these demonic energies.

Although many forces can counter demonic energy, just like water and fire, this counteraction is mutual.

If demonic energy gains the upper hand, even holy angels can be corrupted into fallen angels.

That's precisely why YiSiLanDiEr earlier guessed that something was missing, yet she never made a trip to the Elven Forest.

Although her strength hasn't fully recovered now, the Elven Kingdom has been fallen for a long time, and the front lines have already been pushed to the territories bordering humanity.

Places like the Elven Forest no longer host strong Demon Race forces; one could still make the trip and obtain some fertile soil.

But going there would be useless; after so long, everything has already been contaminated into demonic things.

Otherwise he would have gone there long ago…

…

…

Everything has been handed over, and all tasks at hand are completed.

After looking at the Elven Divine Tree above his head, Su Sheng felt great and then walked to the guild warehouse.

He's already level 70!

Su Sheng planned to look at some level‑75 gear to see if anything could replace his current equipment.

Although most of his gear is orange, the level is low; if it had good stats, it could still be swapped out.

Su Sheng recalls having harvested quite a few level‑75 purple items before.

But after Su Sheng looked around, he disappointedly found nothing that could be swapped out.

But he had already prepared himself mentally; after all, his gear had been carefully chosen, so it wasn't easy to replace.

Even so, his stats have now ballooned to an excessive degree.

Then Su Sheng glanced at the Honor Vine Armor hanging on the guild warehouse's top exchange list, shook his head slightly, and muttered, "Fourth Rebirth stage."

Thanks to yesterday's dropped Carnage item, which is also level 80 but lacks a Fourth Rebirth requirement; otherwise, when would the God King ever be able to use it?

With nothing else to do, it's time to go on a quest.

Skill Trial Quest!

After Su Sheng's level‑up yesterday, the loot from the Xi'an City Demon Armor Commander attracted attention.

Then came a notice of quest completion, plus an unexpected surprise from the guild's upgrade.

Today he was busy again with all sorts of miscellaneous things.

Now Su Sheng finally has the energy to carefully examine his level‑70 Skill Trial quest.

Then…

Su Sheng fell silent.

Sure enough, that's perverse; it's giving me a hard time.

Skill trial mission: The soon-to-awaken Fierce Lion.

Hunting demands a one-shot kill!

Mission: Execute 1,000 targets whose level exceeds your own.

Requirement: Execution must be one-shot; any target hit more than twice does not count toward the mission.

Su Sheng was stunned, having to instantly kill 1,000 targets whose level exceeds his own.

Isn't this making things difficult for me?

Instant kill aside, you also insist on targets whose level exceeds yours; same-level targets aren't acceptable?

Of course, instantly killing Normal Monsters whose level exceeds yours isn't impossible; with buffs, using my now crazy stats, landing a critical hit on a weak spot, and pairing with a high-multiplier skill, it can be done.

But high-multiplier skills have long cooldowns, and the Critical Hit Aura's cooldown is also lengthy.

Without the Critical Hit Aura, that critical rate is downright pitiful.

Fine! I'll do this mission…

Just don't know how good the granted skill is.

I urgently need a short-cooldown AOE skill now; hoping for a short‑CD AOE skill.

No more thoughts…

After Su Sheng organized things and replenished his gear, he headed straight for the level 75 Training Spot.

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly remembered that without a buff, even an instant kill is a bit hard.

Then I opened Private Chat, found Feng Wu Jiu Tian, and asked him to bring his sister over to team up with me for training.

Anyway, there's no organized team training today; because the guild leveled up after yesterday's mission, today's Core Member task is recruiting.

Of course we can't recruit casually; selection is required.

Thus today almost all Core Members are handling recruitment matters.

Each is leveling up using a squad as the unit.

Soon, the Fengwu siblings snapped a Return City Scroll and rushed over.

But at that moment…

Suddenly a Private Chat message arrived.